January 11, 2020 • 37 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon pay homage to the legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart and the effect he had on music to this day! Bill O Brien was caught on tape yelling profanity back at a heckling fan walking into the locker room at half time showing a side of him that's all too relatable. The New York Knicks seem to always find a way to lower all of our standards after a fan makes a incredible half court shot during half time to only win $1000 dollars, in lottery scratchers?! Plus, Jason and Mike pick all the upcoming divisional NFL playoff games to help make you some money!
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This video comes from TMZ and it's from a game
three weeks ago, the Houston Texans trailing at halftime at
home to the Denver Broncos thirty one three. If you
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remember this game, I think the entire world picks Houston.
It was like, wait a minute, how are we losing
thirty one three at the half? Wait a minute, Wait
a minute, wait a minute, this is the Broncos. They
can't score. We're down thirty one three. Going to the
locker room at halftime, this video just comes out. Now
you're gonna hear a fan heckel Texans head coach Bill O'Brien,
who now has to deal with this as he gets
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ready for the divisional playoff round this weekend. We had
to bleep out a lot of it. But the first
thing you're gonna hear is the fan who's right next
to the tunnel is Bill O'Brien is walking in yelling
to Bill O'Brien, you bleep and suck. All right, let's
hear it. You suck to you, suck to you blank
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or blanker? And then I think it's either DeAndre Hopkins
or DeShawn Watson young coach, coach, coach, come on, come on,
come on, but listen to it again. The guy yells
you suck, coach, and then Bill O'Brien again going right
back at him. Coach, coach, coach blanker, blanker. I mean
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that's straight from the people that run the video surveillance
for the stadium. So that guy gets fired, right, I think?
So yeah, that man or woman gets fired from that job. Right.
I'm pretty sure it's DeAndre Hopkins because it looks like him.
It's the video is tough to see, but it looks
like Hopkins is the one who wants coach coach, come on, man,
come on, But you got a guy yell at you
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suck and Bill o'bride can't stand it and says you
suck to you, blanker, blanker. I said it last week.
They're in the first half, and if they get embarrassed
this weekend, I still don't think Bill O'Brien is necessarily safe.
Game now. He won the first game. This is funny,
this will be Bill O'Brien didn't. The Bills did everything
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they could to win that game. That sa bill O'Brien's fired. Yeah,
that's true. That's true. But they didn't. And sometimes it's
one play in the NFL that keeps the guy there.
I'll tell you what. There's lots of wolves at the door. Man.
I get it. I I I get Bill O'Brien losing
as cool at this moment because I've done that before.
In a sporting event, something happens, you say something you shouldn't.
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You know. I've told you the story before about the
time we were playing the softball game against our our
arch rival team and this meat head on the other
team stuff. I just kept saying stupid stuff that didn't
make sense, and his team was laughing about it, and
I'm going I said, listen, meathead, and I started yelling
black blake, blank blank meat head. I did this while
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my mom was watching the game. She had come out
to visit for a week, and she said, I'll come
to your softball game and we'll go to dinner after. Okay,
And she's got to hear me yell call this guy
a meathead and and and curse at him because he
was just being so ridiculously stupid. And you know, at
least at the end, she said, well, I like the
fact that you channeled Archie Bunker and called a meat head.
He was a meathead. He was saying meathead things. So
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I've done that before. And I walked back. I can't
believe I did that. I remember Pam telling me, I
can't believe you did that. I was just so pissed
at him. I was. He was just such I go.
He was so infuriated, she was. I get it, I
get it. But but your mom was right there. I mean,
your mom was like ten ft away when I'm starting
yelling at this guy. H I get it. But I
was twenty seven. Bill O'Brien is fifty, all right. Bill
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O'Brien is older than I am. Now. Bill O'Brien's fifty
and because of fan yells, you suck. You gotta yell back,
you suck to you blanker blanker, dude, go into the
locker room. Learned that Kevin Durant lesson, let this stuff go.
I know, heckler's and trolls. You want to go back
at them. They're infuriating on social media when they yell
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at you when they see you on the street. I
understand that, But you're supposed to be the guy who
sets the example. You're you're an executive, you're the head
coach of the team, and you're yelling at some dude
you know who's walking around with a David Carr jersey.
I assume David Carr who's because that's why he's mad
yelling you suck, and you yell look back out up
you suck too. As you're walking into the into the
tunnel at halftime. God you you it's hey, it's awesome,
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and it's awesome for us. But I mean, really, let's
let's be fair. If we say the things about Kevin
Durant last night, you gotta let trolls go say the same,
especially a guy who's the head coach that should know
better than the rest of the players. That's like, Hey,
you're the guy that's setting the example, and you're the
one that I mean, well, what are the other players
gonna do when they go what coach just lost his mind?
There against it? Thankfully DeAndre Hopkins walked over and and
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and and got it and said something to either snapped
him out of his reverie or got him away from things,
because who knows what had happened. I mean, but now
we get to add him to the the rough cut
alongside Baker Mayfield. I mean, this is great. We can
start the threat of guys just screaming at fans. Go
back to Isaiah Thomas going into the crowd. I mean,
we've got a cross sport section of people just responding
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to tons. I'd really like to know what was yelled
at Bill O'Brien that got in that he yelled you suck. Yeah,
there's gotta be There's gotta be something more than that
just saying you suck. Not But that's that. That's the
other part of it is that sometimes people who do
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lose their mind and say things and come back they go, well,
I was provoked. Now you were provoked because you allowed
yourself to be provoked. If you want to respond to
every idiot, who's gonna troll you and say bad things
about you, whether it's something about your family, your mother,
whatever it is, you can ignore them. You know, there's
no such thing as all there's fighting words when you're
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a coach of a National Football League team and this
is a guy in the stands. There's no fighting words
between a player on the court and a fan in
the stands. No fighting. But it's that kind of level
of intensity that makes him the coach that he How
about that, just like all those raw Rod speeches we
were mocking the last couple of days, like that, he
set the tone. Like now he's set the tone. He
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looked like an idiot. Okay, Mr Judge and you know
down Matt rule, same thing. It's like, yeah, it might work,
but it just sounds so jealous. And this is right.
This is just about four levels below but all on
the same continuous like what are we doing? Come on, guys.
I mean they did hit it bigger in the second
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half and came back and outscored the Broncos seven, but
it wasn't enough to win the game. But still you
have to know better, and you this is I mean,
this is like a lesson to a child, you know,
But at least I give Bill O'Brien credit. Once the
video came out today, he talked about it at his
press conference ahead of the game, wanting to get rid
of everything, and did apologize for his choice of words
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during this confrontation. I was made aware of a video
that's out there, and um, at a halftime in the
Denver game, coming off the field, you know, I used
inappropriate language. Uh, And I just want to apologize for that.
Hard knocks. You've been to a lot of this stuff before.
What's it like when that when you see that video
and that that appears and you you're forced to address
it during a playoff? Yeah? No, I apologize for it.
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You know, like I said, Um, you know, just inappropriate
UM comments and you know, like I said, I apologize
for it, and uh, sorry that it happened. Oh, come on, Bill,
that guy was a tool. Screw him. I like the
way the question was asked. Hey, and it comes out
during a playoff week, you idiot have to address that.
And you know Andy Reid leaked it. He should have
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told the reporter and Blank, you too. You sucked too, Hey, coach,
you suck? How about Bunny? That's what you call solidarity
in the a f C. West We're standing up for
our leader. But you gotta know, I mean, listen last
two nights, whether it's Kevin Durant deciding I don't like
when someone else says Russell Westbrook is better than me.
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And now you have a coach Vanetna valth team yelling
you suck blanker blanker to a fan who just yells
you suck out. Oh you think I suck? You suck
and you suck. You're a blanker blanker. Oh that you
got me, coach, you don't really wish that. He just said, yeah, sorry,
but look in the moment, that was the best. That
guy sucked that blank You be sure to catch live
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Radio and the I Heart Radio app Rush. You know,
I've talked about it many times. I Taylor Getty Lee
sings like his pants are two type, and you know
I was. I wasn't a Rush guy like some of
my other favorite bands were. But cle you know, Rush
had great songs and I love my my wife's one
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of her favorite songs as Limelight, you know, and you know,
getting the news when Neil Parrott died today. I'll tell
you this much, any conversation that I have ever had,
do you think we have big sports conversations every night
and and in my life for the past fifteen years,
and and back and forth, when you're yelling that you
think you're right and somebody other person thinks they're right.
That is nothing compared to the conversations that I would
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have when I was a teenager early twenties. When you
get in that conversation greatest guitarist of all time, greatest
drummer of all time, greatest lead singer of all time,
and you want to fight the other person because they
say it's John Bonham and the other person says this.
But I gotta tell you this, every conversation I've ever had,
I've seen disagreements on on on the guitarist. I've seen
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disagreements on the lead singer. I've seen disagreements on the bassist.
I have not had any conversation about who the best
drummer was that didn't go to the end with Neil
Parrott and John Bonham didn't end with Rush. I mean, really,
I'm not Keith. Yeah, but you know what. But you
see when Keith Moon started having his issues, like you
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got to a couple of albums where even Pete Towns
and Roger Daltry were like, what's happened to you? Like
you've you've lost your edge comments from both of them.
He bailed in a couple of times. I'm like, all right,
it became an easier act. Sadly when he was gone right,
Like he would play double notes all the time, and
I remember seeing Pete Towns. I couldn't believe I'm listening
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to him going, he's playing double He's playing double notes?
How is he doing this? A lot of Ginger Baker?
You know Ginger Baker? Two? Yeah, those are they always
make it down to down to the end. But and Ringo,
we can never forget ring Yeah, but Ringo was dismissed
out of the conversation pretty easily. He's not people who
actually have drums. I'm telling you the conversations. Ringo makes
it down to the end and then he gets he
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played in a big band. You know, you and I
both love photograph, but you know, I'm sorry Ringo fall.
Ringo makes it to the Elite eight. Sometimes they'll make
it to the Final four, but he falls before the
championship game. Neil Pierrett always wins. Yeah, it's, it's, it's,
it's generally it's it's and it's and it's and it's
John bonhom That's what comes down to. And Neil Pierret
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really always wins that one versus two with him in
John Bonham. Just remember a couple of shows, A couple
of my my best friends are just beside themselves, right,
they've now had kids, and it hoped to be able
to introduce at some point a Rush reunion, one more
last run to say, here's what dad has tormented you
with all these years. And like the realization that that
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will never happen now is crushing, and I feel for
them and and for music fans. I saw so many
tributes going out and I think I can now cobbled
together nine hours of music off of my timeline from
different songs. People have suggested, go listen to this one,
or go listen to a live version of this here's
a solo. Uh. Interestingly, you know Adam Carola does his
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pod cast and does long form interviews, and he was
asking what should I do in who haven't I talked
to that you guys would like to hear, and a
couple of people and actually said, look, he's down the
road in Malibu. You can find him on his motorcy.
Could do that. He's a regular guy, he was. He
was like that, not not a star, not a guy
that's gonna walk in and say the lights are too bright.
I need purple lights at my feet in the next
five seconds. Like he was just a regular guy. He
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had come and talk about drumming and do all these things,
and and uh, you know, hearing and seeing the outpouring
of emotion from everybody today, it's one of those whoe.
I I can't believe it, you know. And he and
he passed away earlier this week. You know, it wasn't
even something that happened today. It was earlier this week
in Santa Monica here in Los Angeles. Had a good run,
sixty seven years old and had had some personal tragedies
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that were part of the last few years and maybe
part of the reason that they stopped touring back in TWI.
I know, Getty Lee has gone on to do a
bunch of stuff and special guest star kind of things,
but you know, just a musicians, musician that so many
of the people that we follow in the Winter Verse,
our Buddy Gorman among them. Uh that it just the
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heartbreaking for all of them and pulling out their best
live tracks tonight to go back for those drum solos,
you know. And and that's the thing about Neil Pirett
is that for people like me, I even say, Rush
wasn't one of my go to Man. Mean, I still
like Rush, but I just just not the wasn't because
Rush and Rush was different. You know, Rush wasn't heavy metal.
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They weren't hard rock, but they weren't quite fit. They
weren't quite you know, an indie band either. They were
kind of a mix of all of those. Yeah, it
was difficult to say who are they even now you
would say, well, they're kind of the first of the
great Canadian triumvirate Canadian uh, you know, and no one
mentions Alex Lifelan's name ever, and you know, so it's
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kind of hard now to say that you know where
they would be. But even you know, like even people
like me that I say, hey, I liked Rush and
I like their songs and they were part of my
life and you know, bigger part of many other people's lives.
But there's nobody that doesn't come down and feel like, wow,
this is this is really this affects everybody on some level.
You know, even I saw it was a Chuck d
was tweeting out earlier today when he went in the
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and and so did
Rush the three or four years ago that he he
and Pierre spent time hanging out together talking about what
the night was and everything. And and here's two people
that are separated by by their their the music they do,
and and years and years and years and live and
and they spend time hanging out and talking about what
it was. And you realize that, yeah, when you see
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something like this happening, it affects everybody, and just the
the overall overwhelming number of people from all different levels
of fandom. It just really it It opens your eyes. Ago, Okay,
here's somebody who's universally loved. You don't get universally loved
all them, No, generally not and a guy that didn't
really want any of the limelight, as it were. One
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of one of my favorite clips wasn't a lie performance.
It was him trying to just do warm ups and
make sure his kit was right before a show, and
it was just his long things like where he's working,
like you know, like surgeon, like precision. You know you're
good when your band members can go away for an
hour and the guys still doing a drum solo. Yeah, yeah,
they Hey, we can go down and hook up with
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any bunch of women and then come back up and yeah,
you're still still carrying the crowd like it, like they
didn't even leave. Yeah, you're you're still good. Oh you
guys were gone. Oh I've forgotten that you were gone. Okay,
Oh now I get it now. Yeah, okay, amazing man,
live rest in peace, sixty seven years old. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with
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Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific.
Let's do this right now. Let's start picking the divisional
playoff games this weekend in the National Football League, because
this is what every expert and pundit will tell you
is the best weekend of football. We get rid of
all the riff raff wild card weekend, we get to
the top eight teams, and this is when we get
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the best football, the best quantity of football, in addition
to the quality let's go first with Minnesota and San Francisco.
First game tomorrow one Pacific time on NBC. I told
you three weeks ago it was gonna be the Kirk
Cousins game against the Packers on Monday Night. Didn't happen.
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Last week. I told you I got a feeling this
is gonna be the Kirk Cousins game, and it kind
of was. Vikings win. I said they were gonna upset
the Saints. They did. Dalvin Cook was really good, Adam
feeling was good. I liked the Vikings. They were their
offense was back. Everything were healthy for the first time.
I said they pulled the upset, and they did. I
got the other three games wrong. I said they pulled
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the upset, and they did. This is gonna be the
Kirk Cousins for interception game. It's great. Minnesota had a
big week last week. San Francisco was on another level.
Their defense is the best defense in the NFL. They're
not gonna be able to throw the football. This game
is gonna be a stay. He pulled away for San Francisco,
and they'll be able to run the football they need to.
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They'll be able to throw the football they need to.
Now that Jimmy Garoppolo has spent the last eight weeks
really air and things out a bit, showing that I
can win games with three and four touchdowns if we
need to. They can win any style of game. Minnesota,
it was a great week. Last week was a great
win for Mike Zimmer's staying head coach. Now it's a
big win for Kirk Cousins, but they go back to
reality tomorrow. San Francisco wins. It'll be close in the
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first half San Francisco. Maybe it's like a ten three
three type game, but then it turns a thirty one
thirteen San Francisco. I got San Francisco an upset alert.
I'm a little nervously a pool that exactly. They pull
back after the big win, right the whatever and get
the monkey off your shoulder and whatever you want to
say for Kirk Cousins that there's a relaxation point, but
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that defense will still get after Jimmy Garoppolo for still
his first year starting, and he's been great the second half.
Right Sanders after his acquisition, he out into it. The
people in Denver tried to make something out of some
comments he made on a radio appearance today so he's
kind of salty. But Sanders and Kiddle getting it. Don
Deebo Samuels had a fantastic rookie season quietly for them
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and mostre it's been great. But if you can get
them into the passing downs, can Danio Hunter uh and
that front give Garoppolo fits? I think they can. I'll
take him plus the seven Robbie Gold is the difference.
What it is one of the few guys that you
actually trust in the kicking game in the National football
and now he still wants to go back. See that's
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that's the filthy thing about it. I don't know he
wants to go back anymore. He's gonna be He's gonna
go the Super Bowl. Yeah, he keeps showing up in
Chicago and every event he possibly in prime time. You
want to revisit this pick and this is about as
close to the normal Kirk Cousins can you know. I've
seen him throw four picks during the all the day
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before it's gonna happen a. San Francisco's defense is just
too good. Really, if that's that's the selling point for
me on this points gonna be difficult to come by.
San Francisco's at home. They're gonna roll. Remember the Falcons
went in there not too long ago. I mean it
comes down to Dalvin Cook right over the last seven weeks.
He had a big gameless past week, but overall a
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little bit dinged up, but averaging about a three and
a half yards per caring. He's got to be able
to run the football. Yeah, definitely again too. We got
hurt of practice this week with a cut and whatever else.
He's he's got a bloody sock game, the Adam feeling
bloody sock game. Ready, there's that guy. All right, I
got Kyle Rudolph's gloves. Now we gotta get out of
the bloody sake. Hey, Kyle, can you go apply some
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pressure so there's blood from the wound on your gloves. Yeah,
madness and sues. I think San Francisco ekes one out,
but would not be surprised to see Minnesota win this game.
Out right, Houston and Kansas City, let's go to the
a f C. Now that's a Sunday game, twelve or
five Pacific time, this one on CBS. I would love
to say Houston keeps it going. That is not going
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to happen. You suck to you. Sucked. Bill O'Brien's not happy.
You know why, because Bill O'Brien sucks. So you tell
me I suck. You suck to Bill O'Brien. Look the
over under for this is fifty one. I'll take the over.
This has all the makings of a game that's Kansas
City at halftime. They're gonna get the turnovers they need
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to put this game away. But the biggest thing in
this this is Patrick mahomes Is time. We're sleeping on
him and not given Kansasy the attention they deserve because
they have played phenomenally the past six weeks. They have
figured it all out. They are dangerous, They figured things
out defensively, and this is mahomes Is time. Okay, you
can all talk and fun over Lamar Jackson all you want.
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Here's Aaron Rodgers playing audio. I'm gonna remind you all
on Sunday that I was the guy. I'm the guy.
This is my league, and he's gonna have a huge day.
They are peaking right now, and I'll tell you Kansas
City they're going to the super Bowl. I'm gonna pick
him this week. I'm gonna pick him next week. Houston
winning last week, felt like it was their Super Bowl.
It felt like they needed to get over the hunt
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by winning a playoff game, and they did. It's gonna
be a different story against Kansas City. Their defense the
past few weeks has really risen up and again because
we're not spending a lot of time with them, because
we have the newbie teams of Baltimore and Lamar Jackson
story and the drama last week with the Bills in
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Houston and San Francisco is new and Russell Wilson against
Aaron Rodgers, all of that, all of these things, and
the Chiefs have just been okay. Their defense has let
up an average of ten points a game in the
past six weeks. They have not been beaten up at all.
They have not played a close game since they beat
the Chargers by a touchdown six weeks ago. Andy Reid
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has had two weeks to work on this game and
figure things out. This is gonna be Kansas City. This
is gonna be Kansas City in a big way. Can
will Fuller finish the game? It's it comes down to
that that offense works when will Fuller is on the
field right. Deshaun Watson was a magician at times last week,
and he had to be and in the biggest moment
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he had to be. I think they can run the football.
Chris Jones may not be able to go for this
with Travis Kelsey bing dinged up a little bit like
with Minnesota. It's the did you get your bump as
you call it, did you did you get your win?
And now you're you're fat and happy. I don't know
that you're there. Watson will still be able to make
a few plays. In theory J J. Watt with another
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week of work, maybe he's even more effective to warrant
all the screen time he gets, because that's the other
thing we gotta find a metric for that. You only
get long, long drives where it's just you in the ice,
So if you've actually done something of consequence in the game,
I think I think we should work on that going forward.
But I don't think Kansas City runs away and hides.
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Think Houston gives them a fight on the back of
Carlos Hide, but it's not enough. I'll take I'll take
the ten and a half, so you're taking you so
So I'm saying both Kansas City and San Francisco are
going to win and cover you're saying Minnesota's in San
Francisco and Kansas City are both gonna win, but they're
not gonna correct. That's where you're going. I'm gonna take
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beat the Spring. Look at you to win for a
smaller portion of the football audience. You want to win
for me, and losing by eight wins for me. That's
that's really all it is. I I don't think there
any I'm not looking for a blowout in any of
these games. Taken the over again, the biggest, biggest. I'll
take the over under this one because I think we'll
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have a defense and score or two. I don't have
a defensive score in the first quarter, could be I'll
tell you it's thisen a halftime Kansas City rolls and
everybody's reminded, oh wait, this is really Patrick Mahomes is
above them. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
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Heart Radio app. It is a big football Friday, Yeah
it is. We picked the games we told you about
a few minutes ago, last hour. Now let's get to
the next two. This weekend in the NFL Divisional playoff
round Tennessee and Baltimore. And I'll tell you this right away.
This game is going to be closer than you think.
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This is not going to be a big Baltimore runaway.
Tennessee played last week, they pulled the big upset. Yes,
there's gonna be some kind of coming back to earth
after beating the Patriots on the road. I get that
part of it. But the Titans are gonna be able
to sledge hammer Derrick Henry. And you know what the
Ravens plan is. We are gonna sell out to stop
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Henry and make Ryan Tannehill make plays. But here's the thing.
Ryan Tannehill can make a few plays. This is not
gonna be a game where suddenly in the first quarter
you look up, but it's seventeen three and it's six,
and boy, this game is over. Tennessee is gonna keep
it close. They will sledge hammer Derrick Henry and try
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to break through. Tannehill will make enough plays. It will
be low scoring. You're talking about the big time pressure
on Lamar Jackson, who walked in last year to the
playoff game with no pressure, played poorly for three quarters
and almost pulled off the big upset in the fourth
against the Chargers. Now he's entering with all the pressure
eyeballs on him. It will be a tougher game than
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you think, but Baltimore will still find a way up
by a field goal or one score in the fourth quarter.
Everybody's gonna be shocked that maybe the Titans can win
this game. But Jackson will make enough plays down the
stretch and the Ravens will win this game by ten.
I'm saying two sixteen Ravens over the Titans. You set
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it up beautifully, you didn't finish the job. Titans win, win,
They get the sledge hammer with Derrick Henry. You got
Mark Ingram's a little bit banged up, Mark Andrews a
little bit banged up. They sell out defensively and keep
Lamar Jackson in the pocket. All the creativity and the
misdirection that they've been able to do. Not so fast.
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Mike Vrabel gets them laughing like jackals, just like he
did a week ago. And that look where it comes
down to, right is as you mentioned Tannehill, He's made
the throws a j Brown and you know the other
wide receivers are stepping up their games as you roll.
So for Jimmy Smith and for Marcus Peters, some big
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tests on the outside. I don't think again, Tannehill is
playing with house money. That's the beautiful thing here. There's
no pressure on them at all. We talked about Kirk
Cousins and being able to just throw off all the
ills of past failure. For for the Titans, there's nothing there.
I think they're able to frustrate the Ravens. I'm afraid
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of Justin Tucker. I gotta get another kicker in while
I'm at it. But I'm gonna take the Titans to
do the unthinkable chaos and end this magical run by
the Baltimore Ravens. Seahawks and the Packers the final game
of the weekend on Sunday three Pacific time kickoff. I'd
love to pick the Seahawks, my Seahawks, I'd love to
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pick them. I would, but unfortunately I watched them play
last week, and yeah, it was not pretty. It wasn't
the game that look. I thought Philadelphia would pull the upset.
Carson Wentz got hurt and then I knew that wasn't happening.
To go give Josh McCown a hug. But this was
today played that played all games Sunday with a broken leg,
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ham and straight broken arms ripped off the bone. Good God,
So Josh McCown played the whole game with with with
a hamstring ripped away from the bone. It was what
a great tough guy award. But the Seahawks last week
should have won this game and going away, and it
was a one score game late in the fourth quarter,
and they needed a goal line stand against Josh McCown
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to win this football game. Not only that, then they
needed a prayer fifty yard pass from Wilson a dk
metcalf when they were going to give the ball back
to the Philadelphia Eagles. The losing of their running game
has really decimated them. They have still not figured out
their offense in the past three and a half weeks,
and that they're not gonna do it against the Packers,
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whose defense is really good, who are gonna be able
to control the football themselves. They're a dual threat team.
This is now an Aaron Jones driven team. And don't
forget that he's the number one weapon they have on
that squad and Aaron Rodgers played support to him all
season long. If they try to stop Aaron Jones. You
know Rogers can still do it. Vice versa. I think
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the Packers just a little bit too good for the
Seahawks that if they had their running game figured out,
if they could, if they if they had things to
the point where it was earlier in the season before
every running back they had got hurt, I would stick
with my Seahawks. But I don't see it happening in
Green Bay. Packers win. I'm not a believer in the
Packers team as we watched him throughout the year. Offensively,
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the run game has been solid, and Aaron Jones, who
had touted before the year, uh in the fantasy realm
and people look at me like I was crazy. He's like, no,
I knew what Mike McCarthy didn't bother to figure out
last year. That was his best chance to win football
camps for the Packers. He was their best runner, and
they didn't realize it until it was too late. For
the Packers, you have one guy that you trust in
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the receiving corps. You got Davante Adams, Yes, Lazard and
some of the others have stepped up. Jimmy Graham on occasion,
but with the weather in full effect. We're talking ten
to twelve inches of snow at last last forecast, and
and the cold taps. Now. The one thing that that
helps Seattle's offense, even though they can't fall forward right
seventeen carries nineteen yards I believe it was a week ago,
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is that the Packers aren't very good at defending down
field passing. I mean, like what we're talking going for
the downs with DK Metcalf or whatever you can get
out of Hollister or from Tyler Lockett. So whenever you've
got Russell Wilson, you have a puncher's chance and they'll
keep it close. So I like them plus the four
or four and a half depending where you're shopping right now.
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But I think the ground game with Aaron Jones is
too much to overcome and that they just bleed clock.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. Uh. You know, I want to know how
an idea like this actually makes it to fruition With
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the Knicks. The Knicks had a guy, a fan. They
invited a fan half court make a shot like you
see at all the NBA games, and if you make
the shot, you win a decent amount of money. Lakers
gave a guy a hundred thousand dollars last week to
make a half court shot. Guy Knicks fan tonight makes
a half court shot, really the only shot the Knicks
made tonight because they lost to the Pelicans at home one.
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And he makes it, and he wins a thousand dollars
in scratch off ticket. Thousands in scratchers now thousand dollars.
After having some time to to think about this, I
I'm going to ask the following questions. All right, well,
the Nicks put it out on Twitter, sponsored by the
New York Lottery and celebrated it. How do you how
do you? Okay? Of course they did. Don't blame us.
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It's the New York Lottery that's so they would give us.
Uh okay, do you think of what they were all
the dollar scratch off, a couple of fives or here
you get one thousand dollars scratch off. Here it's one.
Oh you lost when you go to a casino. Here's
your one spin at a million dollars. Knowing Dolan expired,
here's what you get. You get a half price buffet. Uh.
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Did they just have did they just have a whole
thing where they told all employees, Hey, if you come
in from Christmas and if you have any leftover scratchers,
bring him in. We're gonna do something for a fan
sometime in the middle of January. Anybody got any extra
stocking stuffers laying around? I mean, is this part of
their promotion that expired? Right? They had something from the
holidays and as soon as it got to the new year,
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they said, all right, we're not gonna sell these at
retail anymore, so let's put him in smart. This is
the Knicks thinking this was a good idea, guaranteed. I
mean again, I like the idea of saving yourself some money,
especially what it causes some embarrassment, uh, and some fodder
for us here at Fox Sports training. I don't know
how you think that that's a good idea. Like that's
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something you give a fan who just you know, goes
on the court and has to dribble a basketball from
one end to the other, and like that's the old
balance after spinning around with head on a bat and
all that stuff. Something stupid for like baby, you make
it or you you do so, But you make a
shot from half court. Yeah, no, it's it's the standards
been set for what you get. You get a decent
amount of cash for that. Yeah, January fifth was the grand.
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But you give a thousand dollars and scratch Look, you
can spin the ball on your finger for three seconds,
you hape? That guy was? I guarantee you he didn't
know what he was gonna win. Hey, what am I
gonna win? Dude? Where you go? Ahead? Shoot? Shoot? Shoot?
Do I at least get a couple of tickets to
Hamiltons or Beetle Juice before it closes? No, come on, man,
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tell me what beetle juice? Beetle be juice? Come on, man,
here so damn cheap chase. And they probably tried to
move the basket as he was shooting. Tell me what
I can win? I won't do it. Hey, Well, last
week the Lakers gave a guy a hundred grand to
make the show. All right, I'll do it. Hey, where's
my hundred grant? No? I just said the Lakers did.
We're gonna give you a thousand dollars and scratch off tickets.
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Gotta be in it to win it. Here you go,
scratch off someone saying the price should have been to
jam with Dolan's gotta get that guy on the show.
Actually we can find out what he wants. And that
was third prize was getting the jam with Dolan's band.
That was third problement. You get to go. That's why
it's third prize, it's actually goes. It was thousand dollars
and scratch offs. Second prize a week with John Stamos.
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Third prize was two weeks with John Stamos. Fourth prize
is jam package is taking entice your and uh security. Yeah,
I already called that a silent auction. You've got no chance.
I I mean, I don't, I don't chance. This is
you know. I always say that my best job outside
of radio would be as a consultant public relations wise
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to the stars and when something is going on, you
don't know how to react to something. Should I say
something on social media? Should I not? I will tell
you how to proceed so you don't get a lot
of unwanted heat. My other great job would be, okay,
you tell me team what you want to do in giveaways,
and I'll tell you if this is a good idea
or not. And I would tell the Knicks. How does
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this idea get out of Yeah, I don't understand how
it gets out of committee, because you gotta think, what
if the guy makes it? You know, they walked out
of the meeting going. Guy's not gonna make it. Man,
don't worry about it. Just being stupid. We got a
whole free giveaway from the New York State Lottery Commission.
What are you worried about? Just shut up and do
your job, all right, that's not gonna happen, right, and
unless the fixes into where one of these like a
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twenty dollar prize and those scratchers, I'm not even kidding though,
Fuck you won thousand dollars. No, I want you scratch
Would would you take the thousand dollars and scratchers or
would you try to sell them? Who's gonna buy them? Oh? People,
the idea, scher the idea that get them at the
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great thousand dollars back. But you can't get some money value. Yeah,
you can get you would sell these thousand dollars and
scratchers and get a thousand dollars at least you could
get that for because from the Knicks event, it's a fun. Look.
I'll tell you what there is a Knicks. They're not
getting a dollar. Listen, you'd be surprised there is a
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subculture of lottery scratchers out there that you have no
I it's like living on the dark web. I mean
you would be surprised at people trust me because it's
part of your Allie Hayes no no, no, no, no no.
Alie Hayes has nothing to do with this. Just stop.
I know these can make it. Sub members of my
wife's family, sub members of the people you visit are
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these are the people you visited Detroit. These are the
people jumping knucklehead million, these are these are the people
when you go to Detroit you hear stories about people
who know these people. Right. That's that's That's how far
removed there is. There is a scratch off subculture that
is just manic for stuff like this. He could go
on eBay and say I'm the fan that won this.
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Immediately he would get his money back because someone would
buy a thousand dollars in scratchers. He would probably get
more because I'm the guy from the Knicks game, and
if you win, you're a bigger story because guess what,
I got these tickets from the Knicks guy, and I
want more money, so he would at least get a grant,
probably more if he sold this. Because the thing I
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think there is something to the effect of there the
logic and you might be able to put this out
here is it's like people do with base ball cards,
Like this is a hot pack. Right, I went through
the box and I was supposed to get two autographs.
I only got one, So this has to have an autograph. Thereby,
you should give me some premium for this last pack
that was out of my box. Meanwhile, they're sitting there
with the entire box and they're doing this twenty four
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times or thirty six times. But the idea being either
from the Knicks, there's got to be a winner in here. Right.
They wouldn't just give me a thousand dollars and scratchers, right,
please help. They wouldn't just give me a thousand dollars
and scratchers for hitting a half court shot. And maybe
you could find someone and talk them into the expected
value being higher because of the Knicks. Time. There you go,
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that's exactly how it's gonna want. It's potentially um disastrous
for them, but yeah, your Nicks. You know what way
to get it going,
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Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.
This video comes from TMZ and it's from a game
three weeks ago, the Houston Texans trailing at halftime at
home to the Denver Broncos thirty one three. If you
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remember this game, I think the entire world picks Houston.
It was like, wait a minute, how are we losing
thirty one three at the half? Wait a minute, Wait
a minute, wait a minute, this is the Broncos. They
can't score. We're down thirty one three. Going to the
locker room at halftime, this video just comes out. Now
you're gonna hear a fan heckel Texans head coach Bill O'Brien,
who now has to deal with this as he gets
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ready for the divisional playoff round this weekend. We had
to bleep out a lot of it. But the first
thing you're gonna hear is the fan who's right next
to the tunnel is Bill O'Brien is walking in yelling
to Bill O'Brien, you bleep and suck. All right, let's
hear it. You suck to you, suck to you blank
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or blanker? And then I think it's either DeAndre Hopkins
or DeShawn Watson young coach, coach, coach, come on, come on,
come on, but listen to it again. The guy yells
you suck, coach, and then Bill O'Brien again going right
back at him. Coach, coach, coach blanker, blanker. I mean
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that's straight from the people that run the video surveillance
for the stadium. So that guy gets fired, right, I think?
So yeah, that man or woman gets fired from that job. Right.
I'm pretty sure it's DeAndre Hopkins because it looks like him.
It's the video is tough to see, but it looks
like Hopkins is the one who wants coach coach, come on, man,
come on, But you got a guy yell at you
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suck and Bill o'bride can't stand it and says you
suck to you, blanker, blanker. I said it last week.
They're in the first half, and if they get embarrassed
this weekend, I still don't think Bill O'Brien is necessarily safe.
Game now. He won the first game. This is funny,
this will be Bill O'Brien didn't. The Bills did everything
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they could to win that game. That sa bill O'Brien's fired. Yeah,
that's true. That's true. But they didn't. And sometimes it's
one play in the NFL that keeps the guy there.
I'll tell you what. There's lots of wolves at the door. Man.
I get it. I I I get Bill O'Brien losing
as cool at this moment because I've done that before.
In a sporting event, something happens, you say something you shouldn't.
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You know. I've told you the story before about the
time we were playing the softball game against our our
arch rival team and this meat head on the other
team stuff. I just kept saying stupid stuff that didn't
make sense, and his team was laughing about it, and
I'm going I said, listen, meathead, and I started yelling
black blake, blank blank meat head. I did this while
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my mom was watching the game. She had come out
to visit for a week, and she said, I'll come
to your softball game and we'll go to dinner after. Okay,
And she's got to hear me yell call this guy
a meathead and and and curse at him because he
was just being so ridiculously stupid. And you know, at
least at the end, she said, well, I like the
fact that you channeled Archie Bunker and called a meat head.
He was a meathead. He was saying meathead things. So
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I've done that before. And I walked back. I can't
believe I did that. I remember Pam telling me, I
can't believe you did that. I was just so pissed
at him. I was. He was just such I go.
He was so infuriated, she was. I get it, I
get it. But but your mom was right there. I mean,
your mom was like ten ft away when I'm starting
yelling at this guy. H I get it. But I
was twenty seven. Bill O'Brien is fifty, all right. Bill
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O'Brien is older than I am. Now. Bill O'Brien's fifty
and because of fan yells, you suck. You gotta yell back,
you suck to you blanker blanker, dude, go into the
locker room. Learned that Kevin Durant lesson, let this stuff go.
I know, heckler's and trolls. You want to go back
at them. They're infuriating on social media when they yell
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at you when they see you on the street. I
understand that, But you're supposed to be the guy who
sets the example. You're you're an executive, you're the head
coach of the team, and you're yelling at some dude
you know who's walking around with a David Carr jersey.
I assume David Carr who's because that's why he's mad
yelling you suck, and you yell look back out up
you suck too. As you're walking into the into the
tunnel at halftime. God you you it's hey, it's awesome,
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and it's awesome for us. But I mean, really, let's
let's be fair. If we say the things about Kevin
Durant last night, you gotta let trolls go say the same,
especially a guy who's the head coach that should know
better than the rest of the players. That's like, Hey,
you're the guy that's setting the example, and you're the
one that I mean, well, what are the other players
gonna do when they go what coach just lost his mind?
There against it? Thankfully DeAndre Hopkins walked over and and
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and and got it and said something to either snapped
him out of his reverie or got him away from things,
because who knows what had happened. I mean, but now
we get to add him to the the rough cut
alongside Baker Mayfield. I mean, this is great. We can
start the threat of guys just screaming at fans. Go
back to Isaiah Thomas going into the crowd. I mean,
we've got a cross sport section of people just responding
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to tons. I'd really like to know what was yelled
at Bill O'Brien that got in that he yelled you suck. Yeah,
there's gotta be There's gotta be something more than that
just saying you suck. Not But that's that. That's the
other part of it is that sometimes people who do
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lose their mind and say things and come back they go, well,
I was provoked. Now you were provoked because you allowed
yourself to be provoked. If you want to respond to
every idiot, who's gonna troll you and say bad things
about you, whether it's something about your family, your mother,
whatever it is, you can ignore them. You know, there's
no such thing as all there's fighting words when you're
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a coach of a National Football League team and this
is a guy in the stands. There's no fighting words
between a player on the court and a fan in
the stands. No fighting. But it's that kind of level
of intensity that makes him the coach that he How
about that, just like all those raw Rod speeches we
were mocking the last couple of days, like that, he
set the tone. Like now he's set the tone. He
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looked like an idiot. Okay, Mr Judge and you know
down Matt rule, same thing. It's like, yeah, it might work,
but it just sounds so jealous. And this is right.
This is just about four levels below but all on
the same continuous like what are we doing? Come on, guys.
I mean they did hit it bigger in the second
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half and came back and outscored the Broncos seven, but
it wasn't enough to win the game. But still you
have to know better, and you this is I mean,
this is like a lesson to a child, you know,
But at least I give Bill O'Brien credit. Once the
video came out today, he talked about it at his
press conference ahead of the game, wanting to get rid
of everything, and did apologize for his choice of words
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during this confrontation. I was made aware of a video
that's out there, and um, at a halftime in the
Denver game, coming off the field, you know, I used
inappropriate language. Uh, And I just want to apologize for that.
Hard knocks. You've been to a lot of this stuff before.
What's it like when that when you see that video
and that that appears and you you're forced to address
it during a playoff? Yeah? No, I apologize for it.
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You know, like I said, Um, you know, just inappropriate
UM comments and you know, like I said, I apologize
for it, and uh, sorry that it happened. Oh, come on, Bill,
that guy was a tool. Screw him. I like the
way the question was asked. Hey, and it comes out
during a playoff week, you idiot have to address that.
And you know Andy Reid leaked it. He should have
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told the reporter and Blank, you too. You sucked too, Hey, coach,
you suck? How about Bunny? That's what you call solidarity
in the a f C. West We're standing up for
our leader. But you gotta know, I mean, listen last
two nights, whether it's Kevin Durant deciding I don't like
when someone else says Russell Westbrook is better than me.
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And now you have a coach Vanetna valth team yelling
you suck blanker blanker to a fan who just yells
you suck out. Oh you think I suck? You suck
and you suck. You're a blanker blanker. Oh that you
got me, coach, you don't really wish that. He just said, yeah, sorry,
but look in the moment, that was the best. That
guy sucked that blank You be sure to catch live
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editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays
at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the I Heart Radio app Rush. You know,
I've talked about it many times. I Taylor Getty Lee
sings like his pants are two type, and you know
I was. I wasn't a Rush guy like some of
my other favorite bands were. But cle you know, Rush
had great songs and I love my my wife's one
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of her favorite songs as Limelight, you know, and you know,
getting the news when Neil Parrott died today. I'll tell
you this much, any conversation that I have ever had,
do you think we have big sports conversations every night
and and in my life for the past fifteen years,
and and back and forth, when you're yelling that you
think you're right and somebody other person thinks they're right.
That is nothing compared to the conversations that I would
(09:29):
have when I was a teenager early twenties. When you
get in that conversation greatest guitarist of all time, greatest
drummer of all time, greatest lead singer of all time,
and you want to fight the other person because they
say it's John Bonham and the other person says this.
But I gotta tell you this, every conversation I've ever had,
I've seen disagreements on on on the guitarist. I've seen
(09:49):
disagreements on the lead singer. I've seen disagreements on the bassist.
I have not had any conversation about who the best
drummer was that didn't go to the end with Neil
Parrott and John Bonham didn't end with Rush. I mean, really,
I'm not Keith. Yeah, but you know what. But you
see when Keith Moon started having his issues, like you
(10:09):
got to a couple of albums where even Pete Towns
and Roger Daltry were like, what's happened to you? Like
you've you've lost your edge comments from both of them.
He bailed in a couple of times. I'm like, all right,
it became an easier act. Sadly when he was gone right,
Like he would play double notes all the time, and
I remember seeing Pete Towns. I couldn't believe I'm listening
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to him going, he's playing double He's playing double notes?
How is he doing this? A lot of Ginger Baker?
You know Ginger Baker? Two? Yeah, those are they always
make it down to down to the end. But and Ringo,
we can never forget ring Yeah, but Ringo was dismissed
out of the conversation pretty easily. He's not people who
actually have drums. I'm telling you the conversations. Ringo makes
it down to the end and then he gets he
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played in a big band. You know, you and I
both love photograph, but you know, I'm sorry Ringo fall.
Ringo makes it to the Elite eight. Sometimes they'll make
it to the Final four, but he falls before the
championship game. Neil Pierrett always wins. Yeah, it's, it's, it's,
it's generally it's it's and it's and it's and it's
John bonhom That's what comes down to. And Neil Pierret
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really always wins that one versus two with him in
John Bonham. Just remember a couple of shows, A couple
of my my best friends are just beside themselves, right,
they've now had kids, and it hoped to be able
to introduce at some point a Rush reunion, one more
last run to say, here's what dad has tormented you
with all these years. And like the realization that that
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will never happen now is crushing, and I feel for
them and and for music fans. I saw so many
tributes going out and I think I can now cobbled
together nine hours of music off of my timeline from
different songs. People have suggested, go listen to this one,
or go listen to a live version of this here's
a solo. Uh. Interestingly, you know Adam Carola does his
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pod cast and does long form interviews, and he was
asking what should I do in who haven't I talked
to that you guys would like to hear, and a
couple of people and actually said, look, he's down the
road in Malibu. You can find him on his motorcy.
Could do that. He's a regular guy, he was. He
was like that, not not a star, not a guy
that's gonna walk in and say the lights are too bright.
I need purple lights at my feet in the next
five seconds. Like he was just a regular guy. He
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had come and talk about drumming and do all these things,
and and uh, you know, hearing and seeing the outpouring
of emotion from everybody today, it's one of those whoe.
I I can't believe it, you know. And he and
he passed away earlier this week. You know, it wasn't
even something that happened today. It was earlier this week
in Santa Monica here in Los Angeles. Had a good run,
sixty seven years old and had had some personal tragedies
(12:43):
that were part of the last few years and maybe
part of the reason that they stopped touring back in TWI.
I know, Getty Lee has gone on to do a
bunch of stuff and special guest star kind of things,
but you know, just a musicians, musician that so many
of the people that we follow in the Winter Verse,
our Buddy Gorman among them. Uh that it just the
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heartbreaking for all of them and pulling out their best
live tracks tonight to go back for those drum solos,
you know. And and that's the thing about Neil Pirett
is that for people like me, I even say, Rush
wasn't one of my go to Man. Mean, I still
like Rush, but I just just not the wasn't because
Rush and Rush was different. You know, Rush wasn't heavy metal.
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They weren't hard rock, but they weren't quite fit. They
weren't quite you know, an indie band either. They were
kind of a mix of all of those. Yeah, it
was difficult to say who are they even now you
would say, well, they're kind of the first of the
great Canadian triumvirate Canadian uh, you know, and no one
mentions Alex Lifelan's name ever, and you know, so it's
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kind of hard now to say that you know where
they would be. But even you know, like even people
like me that I say, hey, I liked Rush and
I like their songs and they were part of my
life and you know, bigger part of many other people's lives.
But there's nobody that doesn't come down and feel like, wow,
this is this is really this affects everybody on some level.
You know, even I saw it was a Chuck d
was tweeting out earlier today when he went in the
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and and so did
Rush the three or four years ago that he he
and Pierre spent time hanging out together talking about what
the night was and everything. And and here's two people
that are separated by by their their the music they do,
and and years and years and years and live and
and they spend time hanging out and talking about what
it was. And you realize that, yeah, when you see
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something like this happening, it affects everybody, and just the
the overall overwhelming number of people from all different levels
of fandom. It just really it It opens your eyes. Ago, Okay,
here's somebody who's universally loved. You don't get universally loved
all them, No, generally not and a guy that didn't
really want any of the limelight, as it were. One
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of one of my favorite clips wasn't a lie performance.
It was him trying to just do warm ups and
make sure his kit was right before a show, and
it was just his long things like where he's working,
like you know, like surgeon, like precision. You know you're
good when your band members can go away for an
hour and the guys still doing a drum solo. Yeah, yeah,
they Hey, we can go down and hook up with
(15:19):
any bunch of women and then come back up and yeah,
you're still still carrying the crowd like it, like they
didn't even leave. Yeah, you're you're still good. Oh you
guys were gone. Oh I've forgotten that you were gone. Okay,
Oh now I get it now. Yeah, okay, amazing man,
live rest in peace, sixty seven years old. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with
(15:39):
Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific.
Let's do this right now. Let's start picking the divisional
playoff games this weekend in the National Football League, because
this is what every expert and pundit will tell you
is the best weekend of football. We get rid of
all the riff raff wild card weekend, we get to
the top eight teams, and this is when we get
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the best football, the best quantity of football, in addition
to the quality let's go first with Minnesota and San Francisco.
First game tomorrow one Pacific time on NBC. I told
you three weeks ago it was gonna be the Kirk
Cousins game against the Packers on Monday Night. Didn't happen.
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Last week. I told you I got a feeling this
is gonna be the Kirk Cousins game, and it kind
of was. Vikings win. I said they were gonna upset
the Saints. They did. Dalvin Cook was really good, Adam
feeling was good. I liked the Vikings. They were their
offense was back. Everything were healthy for the first time.
I said they pulled the upset, and they did. I
got the other three games wrong. I said they pulled
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the upset, and they did. This is gonna be the
Kirk Cousins for interception game. It's great. Minnesota had a
big week last week. San Francisco was on another level.
Their defense is the best defense in the NFL. They're
not gonna be able to throw the football. This game
is gonna be a stay. He pulled away for San Francisco,
and they'll be able to run the football they need to.
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They'll be able to throw the football they need to.
Now that Jimmy Garoppolo has spent the last eight weeks
really air and things out a bit, showing that I
can win games with three and four touchdowns if we
need to. They can win any style of game. Minnesota,
it was a great week. Last week was a great
win for Mike Zimmer's staying head coach. Now it's a
big win for Kirk Cousins, but they go back to
reality tomorrow. San Francisco wins. It'll be close in the
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first half San Francisco. Maybe it's like a ten three
three type game, but then it turns a thirty one
thirteen San Francisco. I got San Francisco an upset alert.
I'm a little nervously a pool that exactly. They pull
back after the big win, right the whatever and get
the monkey off your shoulder and whatever you want to
say for Kirk Cousins that there's a relaxation point, but
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that defense will still get after Jimmy Garoppolo for still
his first year starting, and he's been great the second half.
Right Sanders after his acquisition, he out into it. The
people in Denver tried to make something out of some
comments he made on a radio appearance today so he's
kind of salty. But Sanders and Kiddle getting it. Don
Deebo Samuels had a fantastic rookie season quietly for them
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and mostre it's been great. But if you can get
them into the passing downs, can Danio Hunter uh and
that front give Garoppolo fits? I think they can. I'll
take him plus the seven Robbie Gold is the difference.
What it is one of the few guys that you
actually trust in the kicking game in the National football
and now he still wants to go back. See that's
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that's the filthy thing about it. I don't know he
wants to go back anymore. He's gonna be He's gonna
go the Super Bowl. Yeah, he keeps showing up in
Chicago and every event he possibly in prime time. You
want to revisit this pick and this is about as
close to the normal Kirk Cousins can you know. I've
seen him throw four picks during the all the day
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before it's gonna happen a. San Francisco's defense is just
too good. Really, if that's that's the selling point for
me on this points gonna be difficult to come by.
San Francisco's at home. They're gonna roll. Remember the Falcons
went in there not too long ago. I mean it
comes down to Dalvin Cook right over the last seven weeks.
He had a big gameless past week, but overall a
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little bit dinged up, but averaging about a three and
a half yards per caring. He's got to be able
to run the football. Yeah, definitely again too. We got
hurt of practice this week with a cut and whatever else.
He's he's got a bloody sock game, the Adam feeling
bloody sock game. Ready, there's that guy. All right, I
got Kyle Rudolph's gloves. Now we gotta get out of
the bloody sake. Hey, Kyle, can you go apply some
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pressure so there's blood from the wound on your gloves. Yeah,
madness and sues. I think San Francisco ekes one out,
but would not be surprised to see Minnesota win this game.
Out right, Houston and Kansas City, let's go to the
a f C. Now that's a Sunday game, twelve or
five Pacific time, this one on CBS. I would love
to say Houston keeps it going. That is not going
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to happen. You suck to you. Sucked. Bill O'Brien's not happy.
You know why, because Bill O'Brien sucks. So you tell
me I suck. You suck to Bill O'Brien. Look the
over under for this is fifty one. I'll take the over.
This has all the makings of a game that's Kansas
City at halftime. They're gonna get the turnovers they need
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to put this game away. But the biggest thing in
this this is Patrick mahomes Is time. We're sleeping on
him and not given Kansasy the attention they deserve because
they have played phenomenally the past six weeks. They have
figured it all out. They are dangerous, They figured things
out defensively, and this is mahomes Is time. Okay, you
can all talk and fun over Lamar Jackson all you want.
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Here's Aaron Rodgers playing audio. I'm gonna remind you all
on Sunday that I was the guy. I'm the guy.
This is my league, and he's gonna have a huge day.
They are peaking right now, and I'll tell you Kansas
City they're going to the super Bowl. I'm gonna pick
him this week. I'm gonna pick him next week. Houston
winning last week, felt like it was their Super Bowl.
It felt like they needed to get over the hunt
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by winning a playoff game, and they did. It's gonna
be a different story against Kansas City. Their defense the
past few weeks has really risen up and again because
we're not spending a lot of time with them, because
we have the newbie teams of Baltimore and Lamar Jackson
story and the drama last week with the Bills in
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Houston and San Francisco is new and Russell Wilson against
Aaron Rodgers, all of that, all of these things, and
the Chiefs have just been okay. Their defense has let
up an average of ten points a game in the
past six weeks. They have not been beaten up at all.
They have not played a close game since they beat
the Chargers by a touchdown six weeks ago. Andy Reid
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has had two weeks to work on this game and
figure things out. This is gonna be Kansas City. This
is gonna be Kansas City in a big way. Can
will Fuller finish the game? It's it comes down to
that that offense works when will Fuller is on the
field right. Deshaun Watson was a magician at times last week,
and he had to be and in the biggest moment
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he had to be. I think they can run the football.
Chris Jones may not be able to go for this
with Travis Kelsey bing dinged up a little bit like
with Minnesota. It's the did you get your bump as
you call it, did you did you get your win?
And now you're you're fat and happy. I don't know
that you're there. Watson will still be able to make
a few plays. In theory J J. Watt with another
(22:41):
week of work, maybe he's even more effective to warrant
all the screen time he gets, because that's the other
thing we gotta find a metric for that. You only
get long, long drives where it's just you in the ice,
So if you've actually done something of consequence in the game,
I think I think we should work on that going forward.
But I don't think Kansas City runs away and hides.
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Think Houston gives them a fight on the back of
Carlos Hide, but it's not enough. I'll take I'll take
the ten and a half, so you're taking you so
So I'm saying both Kansas City and San Francisco are
going to win and cover you're saying Minnesota's in San
Francisco and Kansas City are both gonna win, but they're
not gonna correct. That's where you're going. I'm gonna take
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beat the Spring. Look at you to win for a
smaller portion of the football audience. You want to win
for me, and losing by eight wins for me. That's
that's really all it is. I I don't think there
any I'm not looking for a blowout in any of
these games. Taken the over again, the biggest, biggest. I'll
take the over under this one because I think we'll
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have a defense and score or two. I don't have
a defensive score in the first quarter, could be I'll
tell you it's thisen a halftime Kansas City rolls and
everybody's reminded, oh wait, this is really Patrick Mahomes is
above them. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
(24:09):
Heart Radio app. It is a big football Friday, Yeah
it is. We picked the games we told you about
a few minutes ago, last hour. Now let's get to
the next two. This weekend in the NFL Divisional playoff
round Tennessee and Baltimore. And I'll tell you this right away.
This game is going to be closer than you think.
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This is not going to be a big Baltimore runaway.
Tennessee played last week, they pulled the big upset. Yes,
there's gonna be some kind of coming back to earth
after beating the Patriots on the road. I get that
part of it. But the Titans are gonna be able
to sledge hammer Derrick Henry. And you know what the
Ravens plan is. We are gonna sell out to stop
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Henry and make Ryan Tannehill make plays. But here's the thing.
Ryan Tannehill can make a few plays. This is not
gonna be a game where suddenly in the first quarter
you look up, but it's seventeen three and it's six,
and boy, this game is over. Tennessee is gonna keep
it close. They will sledge hammer Derrick Henry and try
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to break through. Tannehill will make enough plays. It will
be low scoring. You're talking about the big time pressure
on Lamar Jackson, who walked in last year to the
playoff game with no pressure, played poorly for three quarters
and almost pulled off the big upset in the fourth
against the Chargers. Now he's entering with all the pressure
eyeballs on him. It will be a tougher game than
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you think, but Baltimore will still find a way up
by a field goal or one score in the fourth quarter.
Everybody's gonna be shocked that maybe the Titans can win
this game. But Jackson will make enough plays down the
stretch and the Ravens will win this game by ten.
I'm saying two sixteen Ravens over the Titans. You set
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it up beautifully, you didn't finish the job. Titans win, win,
They get the sledge hammer with Derrick Henry. You got
Mark Ingram's a little bit banged up, Mark Andrews a
little bit banged up. They sell out defensively and keep
Lamar Jackson in the pocket. All the creativity and the
misdirection that they've been able to do. Not so fast.
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Mike Vrabel gets them laughing like jackals, just like he
did a week ago. And that look where it comes
down to, right is as you mentioned Tannehill, He's made
the throws a j Brown and you know the other
wide receivers are stepping up their games as you roll.
So for Jimmy Smith and for Marcus Peters, some big
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tests on the outside. I don't think again, Tannehill is
playing with house money. That's the beautiful thing here. There's
no pressure on them at all. We talked about Kirk
Cousins and being able to just throw off all the
ills of past failure. For for the Titans, there's nothing there.
I think they're able to frustrate the Ravens. I'm afraid
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of Justin Tucker. I gotta get another kicker in while
I'm at it. But I'm gonna take the Titans to
do the unthinkable chaos and end this magical run by
the Baltimore Ravens. Seahawks and the Packers the final game
of the weekend on Sunday three Pacific time kickoff. I'd
love to pick the Seahawks, my Seahawks, I'd love to
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pick them. I would, but unfortunately I watched them play
last week, and yeah, it was not pretty. It wasn't
the game that look. I thought Philadelphia would pull the upset.
Carson Wentz got hurt and then I knew that wasn't happening.
To go give Josh McCown a hug. But this was
today played that played all games Sunday with a broken leg,
(27:45):
ham and straight broken arms ripped off the bone. Good God,
So Josh McCown played the whole game with with with
a hamstring ripped away from the bone. It was what
a great tough guy award. But the Seahawks last week
should have won this game and going away, and it
was a one score game late in the fourth quarter,
and they needed a goal line stand against Josh McCown
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to win this football game. Not only that, then they
needed a prayer fifty yard pass from Wilson a dk
metcalf when they were going to give the ball back
to the Philadelphia Eagles. The losing of their running game
has really decimated them. They have still not figured out
their offense in the past three and a half weeks,
and that they're not gonna do it against the Packers,
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whose defense is really good, who are gonna be able
to control the football themselves. They're a dual threat team.
This is now an Aaron Jones driven team. And don't
forget that he's the number one weapon they have on
that squad and Aaron Rodgers played support to him all
season long. If they try to stop Aaron Jones. You
know Rogers can still do it. Vice versa. I think
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the Packers just a little bit too good for the
Seahawks that if they had their running game figured out,
if they could, if they if they had things to
the point where it was earlier in the season before
every running back they had got hurt, I would stick
with my Seahawks. But I don't see it happening in
Green Bay. Packers win. I'm not a believer in the
Packers team as we watched him throughout the year. Offensively,
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the run game has been solid, and Aaron Jones, who
had touted before the year, uh in the fantasy realm
and people look at me like I was crazy. He's like, no,
I knew what Mike McCarthy didn't bother to figure out
last year. That was his best chance to win football
camps for the Packers. He was their best runner, and
they didn't realize it until it was too late. For
the Packers, you have one guy that you trust in
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the receiving corps. You got Davante Adams, Yes, Lazard and
some of the others have stepped up. Jimmy Graham on occasion,
but with the weather in full effect. We're talking ten
to twelve inches of snow at last last forecast, and
and the cold taps. Now. The one thing that that
helps Seattle's offense, even though they can't fall forward right
seventeen carries nineteen yards I believe it was a week ago,
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is that the Packers aren't very good at defending down
field passing. I mean, like what we're talking going for
the downs with DK Metcalf or whatever you can get
out of Hollister or from Tyler Lockett. So whenever you've
got Russell Wilson, you have a puncher's chance and they'll
keep it close. So I like them plus the four
or four and a half depending where you're shopping right now.
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But I think the ground game with Aaron Jones is
too much to overcome and that they just bleed clock.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. Uh. You know, I want to know how
an idea like this actually makes it to fruition With
(30:36):
the Knicks. The Knicks had a guy, a fan. They
invited a fan half court make a shot like you
see at all the NBA games, and if you make
the shot, you win a decent amount of money. Lakers
gave a guy a hundred thousand dollars last week to
make a half court shot. Guy Knicks fan tonight makes
a half court shot, really the only shot the Knicks
made tonight because they lost to the Pelicans at home one.
(30:56):
And he makes it, and he wins a thousand dollars
in scratch off ticket. Thousands in scratchers now thousand dollars.
After having some time to to think about this, I
I'm going to ask the following questions. All right, well,
the Nicks put it out on Twitter, sponsored by the
New York Lottery and celebrated it. How do you how
do you? Okay? Of course they did. Don't blame us.
(31:21):
It's the New York Lottery that's so they would give us.
Uh okay, do you think of what they were all
the dollar scratch off, a couple of fives or here
you get one thousand dollars scratch off. Here it's one.
Oh you lost when you go to a casino. Here's
your one spin at a million dollars. Knowing Dolan expired,
here's what you get. You get a half price buffet. Uh.
(31:46):
Did they just have did they just have a whole
thing where they told all employees, Hey, if you come
in from Christmas and if you have any leftover scratchers,
bring him in. We're gonna do something for a fan
sometime in the middle of January. Anybody got any extra
stocking stuffers laying around? I mean, is this part of
their promotion that expired? Right? They had something from the
holidays and as soon as it got to the new year,
(32:07):
they said, all right, we're not gonna sell these at
retail anymore, so let's put him in smart. This is
the Knicks thinking this was a good idea, guaranteed. I
mean again, I like the idea of saving yourself some money,
especially what it causes some embarrassment, uh, and some fodder
for us here at Fox Sports training. I don't know
how you think that that's a good idea. Like that's
(32:27):
something you give a fan who just you know, goes
on the court and has to dribble a basketball from
one end to the other, and like that's the old
balance after spinning around with head on a bat and
all that stuff. Something stupid for like baby, you make
it or you you do so, But you make a
shot from half court. Yeah, no, it's it's the standards
been set for what you get. You get a decent
amount of cash for that. Yeah, January fifth was the grand.
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But you give a thousand dollars and scratch Look, you
can spin the ball on your finger for three seconds,
you hape? That guy was? I guarantee you he didn't
know what he was gonna win. Hey, what am I
gonna win? Dude? Where you go? Ahead? Shoot? Shoot? Shoot?
Do I at least get a couple of tickets to
Hamiltons or Beetle Juice before it closes? No, come on, man,
(33:13):
tell me what beetle juice? Beetle be juice? Come on, man,
here so damn cheap chase. And they probably tried to
move the basket as he was shooting. Tell me what
I can win? I won't do it. Hey, Well, last
week the Lakers gave a guy a hundred grand to
make the show. All right, I'll do it. Hey, where's
my hundred grant? No? I just said the Lakers did.
We're gonna give you a thousand dollars and scratch off tickets.
(33:34):
Gotta be in it to win it. Here you go,
scratch off someone saying the price should have been to
jam with Dolan's gotta get that guy on the show.
Actually we can find out what he wants. And that
was third prize was getting the jam with Dolan's band.
That was third problement. You get to go. That's why
it's third prize, it's actually goes. It was thousand dollars
and scratch offs. Second prize a week with John Stamos.
(33:56):
Third prize was two weeks with John Stamos. Fourth prize
is jam package is taking entice your and uh security. Yeah,
I already called that a silent auction. You've got no chance.
I I mean, I don't, I don't chance. This is
you know. I always say that my best job outside
of radio would be as a consultant public relations wise
(34:19):
to the stars and when something is going on, you
don't know how to react to something. Should I say
something on social media? Should I not? I will tell
you how to proceed so you don't get a lot
of unwanted heat. My other great job would be, okay,
you tell me team what you want to do in giveaways,
and I'll tell you if this is a good idea
or not. And I would tell the Knicks. How does
(34:39):
this idea get out of Yeah, I don't understand how
it gets out of committee, because you gotta think, what
if the guy makes it? You know, they walked out
of the meeting going. Guy's not gonna make it. Man,
don't worry about it. Just being stupid. We got a
whole free giveaway from the New York State Lottery Commission.
What are you worried about? Just shut up and do
your job, all right, that's not gonna happen, right, and
unless the fixes into where one of these like a
(35:01):
twenty dollar prize and those scratchers, I'm not even kidding though,
Fuck you won thousand dollars. No, I want you scratch
Would would you take the thousand dollars and scratchers or
would you try to sell them? Who's gonna buy them? Oh? People,
the idea, scher the idea that get them at the
(35:22):
great thousand dollars back. But you can't get some money value. Yeah,
you can get you would sell these thousand dollars and
scratchers and get a thousand dollars at least you could
get that for because from the Knicks event, it's a fun. Look.
I'll tell you what there is a Knicks. They're not
getting a dollar. Listen, you'd be surprised there is a
(35:43):
subculture of lottery scratchers out there that you have no
I it's like living on the dark web. I mean
you would be surprised at people trust me because it's
part of your Allie Hayes no no, no, no, no no.
Alie Hayes has nothing to do with this. Just stop.
I know these can make it. Sub members of my
wife's family, sub members of the people you visit are
(36:07):
these are the people you visited Detroit. These are the
people jumping knucklehead million, these are these are the people
when you go to Detroit you hear stories about people
who know these people. Right. That's that's That's how far
removed there is. There is a scratch off subculture that
is just manic for stuff like this. He could go
on eBay and say I'm the fan that won this.
(36:30):
Immediately he would get his money back because someone would
buy a thousand dollars in scratchers. He would probably get
more because I'm the guy from the Knicks game, and
if you win, you're a bigger story because guess what,
I got these tickets from the Knicks guy, and I
want more money, so he would at least get a grant,
probably more if he sold this. Because the thing I
(36:52):
think there is something to the effect of there the
logic and you might be able to put this out
here is it's like people do with base ball cards,
Like this is a hot pack. Right, I went through
the box and I was supposed to get two autographs.
I only got one, So this has to have an autograph. Thereby,
you should give me some premium for this last pack
that was out of my box. Meanwhile, they're sitting there
with the entire box and they're doing this twenty four
(37:14):
times or thirty six times. But the idea being either
from the Knicks, there's got to be a winner in here. Right.
They wouldn't just give me a thousand dollars and scratchers, right,
please help. They wouldn't just give me a thousand dollars
and scratchers for hitting a half court shot. And maybe
you could find someone and talk them into the expected
value being higher because of the Knicks. Time. There you go,
(37:37):
that's exactly how it's gonna want. It's potentially um disastrous
for them, but yeah, your Nicks. You know what way
to get it going,
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